Thursday, September 17, 2026

Frangipani (Plumeria): The island country of St Lucia - Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre & World Univ & Sch, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages * * * searched on "realistic virtual earth world university and school for aging reversal genetics" -and found "to host free online university degrees and research hubs, including a specialized school for aging reversal genetics." [1] * * * Mapping or Predicting "Biological Age into Virtual Cell Research: Launches Virtual Aging Cell Webpage and Previews Multi-Agent Driven VAC Generation" * * * Kaiser Permanente HMO Health Care organization in 8 states & expansion? * * * Are there any medical schools teaching hospitals (e.g. surgery) in buses especially for the developing world? * * * humanoid robots as md professors of surgery? * * * Excited for #HarvardAARD conference eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ...? * * * NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... * * * Thu September 17, 2026 - greetings from Santa Cruz Met an interesting (formerly) English woman, a scientist she said, 50 something, near the Santa Cruz surfing museum, returning to the island country of St Lucia today where she regrows coral and on reefs for a resort

 



Dear Leaders of St Lucia in the Caribbean, Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre, 

How are you? Greetings from the SF Bay Area, and World University and School. In Santa Cruz CA yesterday, 1.5 hours south of San Francisco, I met an English woman scientist from St. Lucia who works re-growing corals that have died due to global bleaching - for reefs there.

In talking with her, and learning about St Lucia, a country of 184,000 people I learned, it lead me to write to you to let you know about free-to-students' World University and School, building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages, and in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, to offer online WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school or similar, AA / AS, and Master's degrees - in English and Saint Lucian Kwéyòl French Creole too if helpful, and potentially by eventually building a physical WUaS Medical School with Teaching Hospital in St Lucia (possibly in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Kaiser Permanente's new medical school in Pasadena California, begun in 2020. and matriculating 48-50 people a year). WUaS's other wing also seeks to build physical-digital WUaS Educational Services' stores in St. Lucia, and think a Walmart product line with low prices (where Walmart is in 19 out of 200 countries, but not St. Lucia as I understand this). More about World University and School here in an incredible #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig, Google AI director, Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - updated Mar 2, 2024. World University and School is also wiki, and is planning to be in all 7159 living languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages), and with AI and ML too. And free open wiki St. Lucia World University and School will also emerge from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and in English and also planned in Saint Lucian Kwéyòl French Creole, if helpful. 


Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre, and all, how might we potentially explore this further with time? I'll add you to the open World University and School WUaS Weekly Business Meeting WUaS News and Q&A emailings (loosely conducted in the manner of unprogrammed Friends NtF Quakers) that meet generally on Mondays in a Zoom conference call at 10 am Pacific Time for further information. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Friendly regards, all the best, thank you, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod


PS
I've blogged about this here - 


Thursday, September 17, 2026
Frangipani (Plumeria): The island country of St Lucia - Philip J. Pierre & Felix Finisterre




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my notes 

country of St Lucia 

























St Lucia medical schools?




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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)











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searched on "realistic virtual earth world university and school for aging reversal genetics" -and found "to host free online university degrees and research hubs, including a specialized school for aging reversal genetics." [1]

realistic virtual earth world university and school for aging reversal genetics



World University and School (WUaS) proposes building a Realistic Virtual Earth (RVE)—an immersive 3D digital-twin and open-education platform—to host free online university degrees and research hubs, including a specialized school for aging reversal genetics. [1]
World University and School & the Realistic Virtual Earth
    • Open-Access Global Model: WUaS aims to offer free, Wikipedia-style online education (from Bachelor’s to Ph.D. and M.D. levels) across 200 countries and in multiple languages. [1]
    • Immersive STEM Modeling: The #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM framework uses advanced geospatial and virtual cell technology to simulate complex biological processes on a planetary scale. [1]
    • Decentralized Research: It serves as a virtual collaborative campus where international scientists can model genetic interventions in real time. [1]
Aging Reversal Genetics in a Virtual Framework
    • Partial Cellular Reprogramming: Research focuses on using Yamanaka factors (like OSK: Oct4, Sox2, Klf4) to safely reset epigenetic clocks and restore youthful gene expression in cells without triggering uncontrolled tumor growth. [1, 2, 3]
    • Virtual Cell Simulation: Advanced simulation platforms (similar to emerging virtual cell and biological age models) allow researchers to test gene knockouts, drug targets, and microenvironment changes digitally before physical lab trials. [1]
Structuring a sample curriculum for an online genetics or longevity degree?








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Mapping or Predicting "Biological Age into Virtual Cell Research: Launches Virtual Aging Cell Webpage and Previews Multi-Agent Driven VAC Generation"


August 14, 2026
Insilico Medicine Introduces Biological Age into Virtual Cell Research: Launches Virtual Aging Cell Webpage and Previews Multi-Agent Driven VAC Generation Platform 




August 14, 2026

Insilico Medicine Introduces Biological Age into Virtual Cell Research: Launches Virtual Aging Cell Webpage and Previews Multi-Agent Driven VAC Generation Platform

Following a decade of exploration from the 2014 NVIDIA GTC to the PreciousGPT model series, Insilico Medicine presents the industry's first multi-agent Virtual Aging Cell(VAC) platform with biological age as a core condition.
Insilico Medicine ("Insilico", HKEX: 3696), a clinical-stage drug discovery company powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the launch of its Virtual Aging Cell (VAC) Webpage alongside the preview of the company’s Multi-Agent driven VAC platform.

Virtual cells are digital models that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling to computationally simulate cellular biology and its underlying dynamic laws. They offer powerful capabilities to predict drug responses, elucidate disease mechanisms, and support target discovery.Recognized as a frontier technology, virtual cells were named one of the seven technology breakthroughs to watch in 2025 by Nature, quickly becoming a focal point of competitive research for top global teams.

However, most existing models rely predominantly on data collected at isolated time points, capturing cells as static snapshots. Their capacity to simulate dynamic temporal processes—such as cellular differentiation, reprogramming, and aging—as well as multi-scale interactions across biological hierarchies, remains markedly constrained. Living cells are not frozen biological units; rather, they are constantly undergoing dynamic processes including division, differentiation, aging, and environmental response. A cell's state is intricately shaped by intracellular molecular networks, intercellular communications, tissue microenvironments, and individual background parameters. Consequently, integrating the temporal axis, biological age, and external interventions into a unified computational framework has emerged as a crucial trajectory for the evolution of virtual cell research.

The Virtual Aging Cell (VAC) concept introduced by Insilico directly addresses this emerging frontier. Built around biological age as a core conditional variable, the platform utilizes a multi-agent AI architecture to perform collaborative reasoning across six biological scales—molecular, intracellular, intercellular, tissue, organ, and organism/population. It aims to dynamically simulate cellular differentiation, reprogramming, and aging, offering robust computational support for target identification, cellular fate intervention, novel drug discovery, and geroscience research.

"Every computational model needs a first principle, and ours is biological age," said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Founder, Co-CEO, and Chief Business Officer of Insilico Medicine. "This has been a decade-long scientific journey, from raising an industry-defining question at NVIDIA GTC in 2014, to teaching AI the language of aging biology with the PreciousGPT series, and now reimagining the virtual cell through agentic AI swarms. The VAC represents the convergence of this thesis: a platform that doesn't just read biological data, but conditionally generates the very trajectory of life's evolution. We look forward to collaborating with global pharmaceutical companies and research institutions in modeling virtual cells, virtual systems, and virtual populations across both healthy and diseased states."Insilico Medicine ("Insilico", HKEX: 3696), a clinical-stage drug discovery company powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), today announced the launch of its Virtual Aging Cell (VAC) Webpage alongside the preview of the company’s Multi-Agent driven VAC platform.

Virtual cells are digital models that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling to computationally simulate cellular biology and its underlying dynamic laws. They offer powerful capabilities to predict drug responses, elucidate disease mechanisms, and support target discovery.Recognized as a frontier technology, virtual cells were named one of the seven technology breakthroughs to watch in 2025 by Nature, quickly becoming a focal point of competitive research for top global teams.

However, most existing models rely predominantly on data collected at isolated time points, capturing cells as static snapshots. Their capacity to simulate dynamic temporal processes—such as cellular differentiation, reprogramming, and aging—as well as multi-scale interactions across biological hierarchies, remains markedly constrained. Living cells are not frozen biological units; rather, they are constantly undergoing dynamic processes including division, differentiation, aging, and environmental response. A cell's state is intricately shaped by intracellular molecular networks, intercellular communications, tissue microenvironments, and individual background parameters. Consequently, integrating the temporal axis, biological age, and external interventions into a unified computational framework has emerged as a crucial trajectory for the evolution of virtual cell research.

The Virtual Aging Cell (VAC) concept introduced by Insilico directly addresses this emerging frontier. Built around biological age as a core conditional variable, the platform utilizes a multi-agent AI architecture to perform collaborative reasoning across six biological scales—molecular, intracellular, intercellular, tissue, organ, and organism/population. It aims to dynamically simulate cellular differentiation, reprogramming, and aging, offering robust computational support for target identification, cellular fate intervention, novel drug discovery, and geroscience research.

"Every computational model needs a first principle, and ours is biological age," said Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, Founder, Co-CEO, and Chief Business Officer of Insilico Medicine. "This has been a decade-long scientific journey, from raising an industry-defining question at NVIDIA GTC in 2014, to teaching AI the language of aging biology with the PreciousGPT series, and now reimagining the virtual cell through agentic AI swarms. The VAC represents the convergence of this thesis: a platform that doesn't just read biological data, but conditionally generates the very trajectory of life's evolution. We look forward to collaborating with global pharmaceutical companies and research institutions in modeling virtual cells, virtual systems, and virtual populations across both healthy and diseased states."

A decade of Foundation: From Virtual Cell Concept to PreciousGPT Series

Insilico’s exploration in virtual cells and geroscience spans a decade.

At the 2014 NVIDIA GTC conference, Insilico first articulated its vision for computational virtual cells, virtual organs, and digital populations, posing a now-famous industry question — "Can NVIDIA help solve aging?" — officially inaugurating the company's use of high-performance computing and AI to investigate the mechanisms of aging.

To translate this theoretical vision into practice, the company subsequently partnered with BioTime, a pioneer in regenerative medicine and stem cell research, on a deep collaboration called Embryonic.AI, which used Deep Neural Network Ensembles to track and modulate cell differentiation trajectories and cell fate decisions during the Embryonic-to-Fetal Transition (EFT).

In 2017, the two teams published their findings in Oncotarget, confirming that AI algorithms successfully identified COX7A1 as a key transition factor in the embryonic transformation stage. This was not only Insilico's first experimentally validated AI target discovery result, but also the first demonstration to the field that artificial intelligence could precisely capture the switches governing cell differentiation, reprogramming, and cell conversion, laying the biological foundation for subsequent virtual cell simulation.

With the rapid advancement of large model technology, Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov first proposed applying multimodal Transformers to aging research at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in May 2022. To explore the potential of multimodal Transformers and diffusion models in life sciences, the company's AI team initiated model development that same year, building on years of accumulated expertise in aging biology and multi-omics modeling to progressively construct the PreciousGPT series of scientific foundation models dedicated to aging mechanism analysis and multi-omics generation.

In 2023, Insilico released Precious1GPT, an aging clock based on multimodal Transformers and transfer learning. The model integrated DNA methylation (epigenetic) and transcriptomic data to predict biological age and distinguish disease from control samples. Using this model, the team identified dual-purpose targets such as APLNR and IL23R, with both anti-aging and anti-age-related-disease potential. The results were published in Aging, a leading journal in the field.

Insilico further expanded the model's capabilities from evaluation and prediction to conditional generation. Released in 2024, Precious2GPT fused a Conditional Diffusion model (CDiffusion) with a decoder-only Multi-Omics Pre-trained Transformer (MoPT), capable of generating high-quality synthetic multi-omics data carrying specific tissue and age characteristics. The model's age prediction accuracy on generated data outperformed baseline models such as conditional GANs. This research was published in npj Aging, a Nature portfolio journal.

That same year, Insilico collaborated with the Vadim N. Gladyshev Lab at Harvard Medical School to release Precious3GPT. As a true multimodal Transformer, the model integrated text, tabular data, and knowledge graph representations, covering four species, including mouse, rat, monkey, and human, and three omics modalities: transcriptomics, methylation, and proteomics. It could perform cross-species age prediction, target discovery, disease/tissue/sex classification, and compound sensitivity prediction within a unified framework. Its synthetic data generation used "biological age" as one of the conditional inputs, ensuring that generated omics data carried age and time labels. The model was open-sourced on Hugging Face and GitHub concurrent with its release as a bioRxiv preprint.
From early single-target identification and validation to the evolution of multimodal foundation models, this research lineage progressively widened the boundaries of what a single model could learn about biological systems, ultimately converging on systematic modeling of the cell's full lifecycle and dynamic processes.

“Biology unfolds across time and interconnected levels, yet many computational models examine only one layer or moment in isolation,” said Petrina Kamya, Ph.D., Vice President, Global Head of AI Platforms and President of Insilico Medicine Canada. “VAC is designed to bring those dimensions together, combining biological age with multi-agent reasoning to explore how changes in a cell’s age affect tissues, organs, and the broader organism. Our goal is to create a more dynamic environment for studying disease, evaluating interventions, and finding new opportunities for drug discovery.”

Agentic AI Driven: From Molecular Simulation to Organism Evolution

While the PreciousGPT model series laid the foundational data and conditional generation capabilities for understanding cellular omics and aging mechanisms, the VAC platform released today introduces a Multi-Agent Swarms architecture, granting it genuine intelligent reasoning capabilities to simulate dynamic living systems.

Unlike most industry approaches that treat the cell as a "static snapshot" at a particular moment, cells in living organisms exist within a network of multi-scale interactions and continuous dynamic evolution. To capture this biological complexity, Insilico constructed a multi-agent collaborative architecture VAC platform, redefining the computational biology paradigm across three core dimensions:

  • Biological time as a core condition. Unlike static expression profile prediction, the multi-agent architecture treats "biological age" as the core conditional variable that penetrates every scale. When reasoning about cell differentiation, reprogramming, or disease progression, the agent swarm can dynamically assess the differential responses of tissue microenvironments across young, mature, and aged life stages, ensuring that biological time naturally permeates every reasoning step.

  • Six-scale agent swarm collaboration. Rather than attempting to compress all biological data into a single Transformer or graph neural network, the VAC system deploys agent swarms spanning different functions and scale gradients. Master Agents handle global task scheduling and cross-level logic integration, while Specialist Agents execute specialized tasks at each level. Individual agents can independently access databases, omics tools, and literature knowledge graphs, and engage in adaptive negotiation and joint reasoning across six biological scales — molecular, intracellular, intercellular, tissue, organ, and organism.

  • From state observation to fate intervention. Traditional virtual cells are largely limited to one-directional state description and expression profile imputation. The VAC platform, by contrast, is designed to answer the question "how to reverse and reshape cell fate." When the system simulates interventions such as drug-target inhibition, gene knockout, or specific environmental stimuli, agents at each level can reason in real time about microenvironment changes, downstream pathway cascades, and cross-scale structural remodeling from micro to macro — providing end-to-end reasoning for stem cell reprogramming and systemic anti-aging strategies.

"What distinguishes VAC is not the number of hierarchical levels or agents, but the combination of bidirectional Master Agent coordination and first-class organism context storage. Among the papers we surveyed, no existing system simultaneously possesses these features: six biological hierarchies, an agent for every biological entity, dual top-down and bottom-up Master Agents, and a shared organism context that prioritizes age as a variable. The preview we are going to release is an important step toward a virtual cell that can model not just states, but changes." Vladimir Naumov, Ph.D., Head of TargetID of Insilico Medicine.

By deeply fusing the omics perception capabilities of the PreciousGPT foundation models with the cross-scale reasoning capabilities of the VAC multi-agent architecture, the VAC platform achieves a leap from single-omics "snapshot" characterization to "dynamic biological system simulation" spanning health and disease states — providing a highly interpretable digital testing environment for target identification, cell reprogramming protocol design, and anti-aging drug evaluation.

Platform Preview and Future Horizons

With the launch of the Virtual Aging Cell Webpage, Insilico has released an initial demo preview video of the VAC platform. Additionally, Insilico will continue the conversation at ARDD 2026 (the 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Conference) in Boston, engaging with top academic and industry partners in the longevity research field on the next steps in virtual cell platform development, and sharing the latest practices and validations of multimodal foundation models and multi-agent systems in aging intervention, cell reprogramming, and target discovery.

As an AI-native company, Insilico is setting industry records by redefining the efficiency and scalability of drug discovery through its advanced AI platform and automation lab. While traditional early-stage drug discovery typically spans 2.5 to 4 years, Insilico consistently reaches developmental candidate (DC) nomination in an average of just 12 to 18 months, synthesizing and testing only 60 to 200 molecules per program.

Since 2021, the company has nominated 33 PCCs, 13 of which have received IND approvals or clearances. Notably, 9 of these DC nominations have been announced since the beginning of 2026, including 2 candidates originating in the UAE, the first milestone in the region’s history. These achievements fully demonstrated the scalability and efficiency of Insilico’s AI-driven R&D productivity.

Building on this AI-driven momentum, Insilico has successfully achieved clinical validation for multiple AI-discovered and AI-designed molecules generated by its Pharma.AI platform. Its most advanced program, Rentosertib, completed a Phase IIa clinical trial establishing proof of concept for safety and efficacy trends, with landmark findings published in Nature Medicine in March 2025.

This track record, combined with the vast repository of proprietary data accumulated through its R&D engine, provides robust, real-world grounding for the Virtual Aging Cell platform’s dry-lab and wet-lab validation loop and target authenticity.

For more information about Insilico’s Virtual Aging Cell, please visit: https://virtualcell.insilico.com



and see too - 


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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)







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Kaiser Permanente HMO Health Care organization in 8 states & expansion??



Kaiser Permanente currently operates in eight states (California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington) plus the District of Columbia, and is expanding nationally through Risant Health. [1, 2, 3, 4]
🗺️ Current 8 States & Regions
    • 📌 California: Northern and Southern CA (largest region)
    • 📌 Colorado: Denver and surrounding areas
    • 📌 Georgia: Greater Atlanta area
    • 📌 Hawaii: Statewide services
    • 📌 Maryland: Mid-Atlantic region
    • 📌 Oregon: Pacific Northwest / Southwest Washington
    • 📌 Virginia: Mid-Atlantic region
    • 📌 Washington: State-wide coverage [1]
📈 National Expansion Strategy
    • 🏢 Risant Health: Created as a non-profit organization to expand value-based care nationwide.
    • 🤝 Geisinger Acquisition: Integrated as the first health system under the Risant Health umbrella (operating in Pennsylvania and expanding).
    • 💡 Multi-System Goal: Plans to add up to six additional community-focused health systems over time. [1, 2]
Would you like to know more about specific facility expansions in California or details on the Risant Health rollout?
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente Launches in Nevada in 2026
Sep 10, 2025 — We currently serve 12.6 million members in 8 states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total ...
Fierce Healthcare
Promising better, cheaper care, Kaiser Permanente's national expansion faces wide skepticism
Aug 15, 2023 — Kaiser Permanente is expanding into other states through its proposed acquisition of Geisinger, a health system based in Pennsylvania. The acquisition is being ...
Sacramento Bee
Promising better, cheaper care, Kaiser Permanente’s national expansion faces skepticism
Aug 10, 2023 — Kaiser Permanente (KP) is a nonprofit health care organization with 12.7 million members in eight states and Washington, D.C.. KP has a strong track record of p...
Wikipedia
Kaiser Permanente - Wikipedia
As of 2022, Kaiser Permanente serves eight states (California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington) as well as the District of...
CalChamber Alert
Kaiser Permanente Working to Shape the Future of Health Care
Apr 12, 2024 — Kaiser Permanente is recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in California in 1945, Kaiser Permane...




kaiser permanente medical school 





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Are there any medical schools teaching hospitals (e.g. surgery) in buses especially for the developing world?

Full-scale, accredited medical school teaching hospitals do not operate inside buses, but specialized mobile surgical training and treatment buses do exist for outreach and education. [1, 2]
Mobile Units vs. Teaching Hospitals
    • No Degree-Granting Mobile Hospitals: Performing complex surgery and running a full residency or medical school curriculum requires permanent infrastructure—such as reliable power, sterile central processing, large-volume blood banks, intensive care units, and multi-tiered faculty. Because of this, formal university teaching hospitals remain land-based.
    • Specialized Training & Treatment Buses: Converted buses, vans, and modular trucks are frequently deployed for targeted medical delivery and hands-on professional upskilling. For example, specialized programs like the Mobile GI Surgical Training Bus launched by AIG Hospitals travel to different regions to provide simulation and minimally invasive surgical education to practicing doctors. [1]
Outreach Models in Developing Regions
    • Hospital on Wheels: Programs in resource-limited areas (such as initiatives in the Philippines and parts of Africa/South Asia) use buses or retrofitted trucks for community screenings and minor outpatient procedures, occasionally serving as rotation sites for short community-health observations rather than core surgical residencies. [1]
    • Container and Trailer Units: Organizations like Hospitainer and Doctors Without Borders build rapid mobile surgical units inside ISO shipping containers or semi-truck trailers for disaster relief and conflict zones, though these focus on acute patient care rather than medical school education. [1, 2]
Are you looking for specific regional programs (e.g., in Africa, Latin America, or Asia)?






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humanoid robots as md professors of surgery?

Shanglei Liu, MD, an assistant professor of surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine, helped lead the world's first live animal surgeries using teleoperated humanoid robots ("Surgie") to perform gallbladder procedures. [1, 2, 3]
Breakthrough Details
    • The Milestone: Published in Nature in July 2026, UC San Diego researchers demonstrated that human-sized, teleoperated humanoid robots can successfully perform or assist in soft-tissue laparoscopic surgeries (gallbladder removal in live pigs). [1, 2, 3]
    • The Advantages: Unlike massive, expensive, single-purpose traditional surgical systems, these humanoid units take up a fraction of the space, cost significantly less, and fit naturally into existing operating room workflows and standard tool adapters. [1, 2, 3]
    • Future Applications: Developers hope to combine this hardware with advanced AI foundation models so future robots can autonomously anticipate a surgeon's next move in remote areas, battlefields, or space. [1, 2, 3]
Would you like to know more about the specific technical specs of the robot platform (like dexterity or latency) or the timeline for human clinical trials?
UC San Diego Today
Surgeons Use Teleoperated Humanoid Robots to Perform Live Surgery
Jul 8, 2026 — Unlike a typical surgical operating system, humanoid robots fit seamlessly in the operating room. Although researchers did have to build adapters to allow Surgi...
Humanoid robot team shows promise for surgery
Jul 10, 2026 — “Remotely operated and autonomous humanoid robots have real potential for amplifying access to critical surgeries to which patients would otherwise not have acc...
ABC7 Bay Area
'Surgie' the humanoid robot makes history with world-first live animal ...
Jul 10, 2026 — One surgery was led by a humanoid robot and assisted by a surgeon, while the second surgery was completed by two humanoid robots, according to the university. T...
Instagram
UCSD Department of Surgery on Instagram
Jul 14, 2026 — For the first time, two teleoperated humanoid robots have been used to complete two surgeries during a preclinical trial. UC San Diego surgeons and engineers le...
Yahoo! Finance Canada
Humanoid robot performs surgery in world first
Jul 9, 2026 — "It's a fraction of the cost and it takes a fraction of the space in an operating room," said Shanglei Liu, MD, an assistant professor of surgery at the UC San ...
Korea Biomedical Review
[On the Scene] 1 surgeon, 2 humanoid robots: Samsung tests the future of the ...
Sep 17, 2026 — The demonstration offered a glimpse of what Samsung Medical Center (SMC) sees as a possible answer to a growing shortage of operating-room staff: AI-powered rob...
YouTube·Zoom Vantage
2m
World's First Humanoid Robot Surgeries: UC San Diego Makes Medical History!







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Excited for #HarvardAARD conference eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ...?


Excited for #HarvardAARD conference eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, #RVEforAgingReversal? 2) Dev #MITOCW-like courses re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Aging_Reversal_Genetics? 3) Prove #AgeReversal?
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2100630615054057938

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2100632143768719704

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2100632526322799082

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2100632706782822776

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2100633545773654213


https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2100680759376060425

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2100680923884945742



Retweeting again
Sundar Pichai 

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2099911653395685765

Sundar Pichai

@sundarpichai
Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so:

- Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers.
- Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date.
- We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally.
- AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people

We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/ai-applications-science-people/



https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2099911653395685765


 



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NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ...


NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pharmacology ? New #WUaSExtremeLongevityGenetics' #WUaSWikiSchool @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ?









NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice ... To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Experimentation ? @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress ?





Both retweeting 

What can GLP-1 drugs teach us about aging?
 
In this video, I share new NIH-funded research showing that semaglutide, a GLP-1 medication, extended lifespan and improved several measures of health in older mice. While more research is needed to understand what these findings could mean for people, the study offers intriguing insights into the biology of aging.
 
Learn more: bit.ly/463JGWt 








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Thu September 17, 2026 - greetings from Santa Cruz


Met an interesting (formerly) English woman, a scientist she said, 50 something, near the Santa Cruz surfing museum, returning to the island country of St Lucia today where she regrows coral and on reefs for a resort 


Hi Ed, Ma, Pin, 

Some thoughts and concerns this morning from Santa Cruz in the text below ... as I seek to move forward into a newly safe, vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest, Canyon, CA 94516 ...  will blog about more aspects of this below regarding some Gemini responses today ... 
Thoughts? 

Fond regards, abolition, warmly, 
Scott 





Hi Ma, Pin, Ed, all, how are you this Thursday? Met an interesting (formerly) English woman, a scientist she said, 50 something, near the Santa Cruz surfing museum, returning to the island country of St Lucia today where she regrows coral and on reefs for a resort ... She's originally from Lancashire in NW England .... Attractive, could she even have been a distant cousin or relation somehow?, and I spoke about World University and School and a realistic virtual earth for oceans, and climate change ... She said that global warming of oceans is causing global bleaching of and death of corals ... Could she have been involved with Friends / Quakers at some point ? She's been growing coral as a job and as a scientist in many parts of the world ... following the jobs as they emerged ... Wearing a nice slightly folky dress and clothes almost out of the 1970s/1980s, in a British way, this was basically her first time in the US and to Santa Cruz ... It leads me to wonder afterward about the beginning St Lucia World University and School in the Caribbean, and how this would work ... with its population of 184,000 as an island nation country state ... St Lucia's main income is from tourism ... hence the coral growing preservation  ... Did she curtsy to me discreetly, as she said she was going back to the city of Santa Cruz, where she was staying with a friend? ...   How would a WUaS Medical School develop there ... How could WUaS partner with or fork from the Kaiser Permanente Medical School in Pasadena CA, which started in 2020, and which accepts 48-50 students a year, and develop with even a US uniformed medical services' agency in St Lucia after developing our other WUaS higher education degrees by adding MIT OCW to an open edX Europe platform and creating a St Lucia WUaS (since GDPR law could possibly allow data collection about how students learn re enjoyment even, differently), and with developing the physical WUaS Educational Services' stores there too ... ? WM isn't in St Lucia so developing both a physical WUaS Medical School and physical WUaS stores would be part of this planning (and in all ~200 countries potentially) and potentially with these organizations too ... Glad to have gotten a place to stay at the Friends Meeting at Cambridge, and booked my flight to Boston yesterday ... 2 red eyes there and back ... $674 .. on Southwest ... 8 hour layover in Baltimore I think on the way back west ... Pin, want to meet 🙂 ? ... Might I even meet a friend - with parallels to the St Lucia British expatriate woman -  also a MD even at the Harvard AARD conference or at Friends Meeting at Cambridge who is based in the SF Bay Area, and might want to begin a family ...? ... Received another shred-it spam this morning where I was van-camping near the Natural Arches Butterfly park in Santa Cruz, ... leading me to wonder further about international organized crime and the murderous run through attempt of me in Pgh by cmu student french-swiss-epfl or Lebanese soldier??? frederic khayat receiving us federal social security checks after a while - in April 2023  ... and the gunshot to roof of my vehicle near the chabot space and science center in the Oakland hills on M May 18, 2026 ... and the 5 tesla-company related death threats too ... and was that black car that pulled in front of my parked van just as I began to Yoga meditate this morning and then away, and then again I think pulled out in front of me just at the corner turning right to head into the Natural Arches butterfly park the shooter even, as I turned left along the Pacific ocean road ... and a psychopath??? Did law enforcement get the shooter ? ... And when might I move forward into a newly safe vacant with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 ... and also to knock back international organized crime in the sf east bay in the process ... and to raise a family there, I wonder? ... I have ongoing concerns about the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft, military targeting industries ... and in growing a WUaS worldwide abolition movement to protect people ... Should I be concerned about St Lucia? ... about KP (in 8 US states) ... as they seek to head into Nevada? about Pgh hospitals too, re what you said on the phone on Tuesday Ma ? And how could Pi Cryptocurrency for all 7.9 billion people and to end poverty too and for avatar agent electronic health records for extreme longevity genetic drug therapies help potentially, and re law enforcement and a cultural shift to counterculture??? somehow possibly too? Yogically, fondly, warm regards, abolitionally, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/conscientious%20objection & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Quakers & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/English)





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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)



- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 


2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
- wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (planning ~200 countries' WUaS world class universities in their main languages, per the Olympics, for free-to-students' WUaS degrees from home)

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning to be in all 7159 living languages, each as or with wiki schools for open people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning, e.g. from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)





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Hi Ed, Ma, Pin, 

Hi Ma, Pin, & Ed, and AI readers (will add to today's email too, I think) .. As I travel north toward Marin, I wonder, inquiringly or brainstorming-wise, further whether that (former she said) English woman living in St Lucia could somehow even know, and be dating too???, heinous criminal?? retired major general douglas fraser of the southern command in the us air force (and faux obituary?? UC Berkeley Cal anthropology & tourism prof nelson graburn?? now living in Japan with his Japanese wife Kathy?) ... since St Lucia is in the us uniformed armed services' southern command ... and could douglas fraser have gotten paid handsomely by the us uniformed armed services - in cahoots with international organized crime (out of pittsburgh re univ of pgh managed at the time semester at sea, and even shady side academy classmates of mine from the late 1970s - re organized crime?) - to deliver the death blow to my father GKM MD ... on Dec 30, 2004 in Belize on semester at sea ? And could fraser feel guilty about this - and even seek to have me knocked off - with international organized crime (re the date of my father's 1st subdural hematoma) - since I have been documenting aspects of this for years now ... to preserve a version of his own career's history ? And also re what the St Lucia woman from England originally said ... "I have a friend" - and could she be staying with a US military acquaintance, or could this refer somehow indirectly to soldier fraser too ...  and "I'm going back to the city" of Santa Cruz or Monterey? ... Also re me heading back to the SF Bay Area ... and potentially moving into a newly safe vacant with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Canyon 94516 ... (And I'm recalling the satellite trucks up around Harbin Hot Springs - douglas fraser's company ? - and as he tracks me, and am remembering too the old soldier up along the Mendocino coast last year in the air force, in a rest area - who had been shot at - and it's not fun he said - and was he mentally unwell - keeping a look out for submarines off the California coast I wondered? ... and re the gun shot to my vehicle on 5/18/26 - 'precipitated' - your word Ed I think - by douglas fraser and faux obituary?? Bob Mueller ... re gunshot near where my head would have been as I arose to sit up in half lotus in Yoga meditation - due too to my Toyota Sienna's cameras inside my vehicle ... as a possible engineer in some organization ... adds to the 4 previous death threats  )  And are we all Yogically working through our karma, dharma, and samsara ??? A psychological mis-reading by fraser through the British woman ... & re my ongoing seeking of a life partner too ... with whom to begin a family ... Yet there could be an opportunity for St. Lucia World Univ & Sch here too ... and for a physical medical school in St Lucia for St. Lucians, and physical WUaS Educational Services' stores too ... But how too to grow an abolition movement ... How to de-extinct my father GKM MD ... re international organized crime ... and to help him once possibly alive again to stay dis-entangled from international organized crime too, somehow psychologically ... - e.g. in 20-100 years possibly (seems improbable, but who knows - e.g. given Dolly the Sheep's cloning )? ... And how to navigate helping St Lucians re it being independent since 1979 from england but still a constitutional monarchy ... re Britain too ... Abolition, hoping you're doing well, sending care, Scott (Can we end the 50 million people who are enslaved on this planet, with a realistic virtual earth, and a. realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs as well?? ... Just tweeted too - "
Excited for #HarvardAARD conference eg https://agingpharma.org/program2026#virtual-cell-in-time 1) Add #VirtualCellInTime to #AvatarAgentEHR as #DigitalTwins for 7.9B people in #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics, #RVEforAgingReversal? 2) Dev #MITOCW-like courses re https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Aging_Reversal_Genetics? 3) Prove #AgeReversal?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2100630615054057938

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2100632143768719704

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2100632526322799082

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2100632706782822776

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2100633545773654213


Retweeting again
Sundar Pichai

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/2099911653395685765" 

... where I don't think Google has a illegal sex industry problem, eg re senior google LLM coder jeff dean departing google, except for maybe a possible googler tenny field re Cuttyhunk ...who may be sending me the "Shred-it" spams -is that what khayat said to organized crime / even law enforcement in pgh to my Evict and Extradite as war criminal frederic khayat?  ... as well as Google Photos on smartphone ... to me not as a "wedgie" "creep" like swarming tesla/spaceX/Twitter seeking to institutionalize?? international organized crime vehicles etc but as a Friend NtF Quaker, a member of the Unitarian Universalist church, and a Yoga teacher, re 8 limbs of Yoga ... and what to teach re Yoga for Saturday? ... How is your de-hunching-over going Ma? And how might Bob Mueller's becoming stronger and fitter with essential tremor possibly too with Yoga asana and 8 limbs of Yoga be going?) Thoughts? Fond regards, Yogically, warm regards, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Yoga)


How to know when Canyon 94516 has become safe ... per John Sargent MD's question too ? 

Abolition ... and newly with IT and AI and GPS and ML ... 
Sending care, Scott










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